Movie Reviews

Firewall

Jack Stanfield (Harrison Ford,) a VIP Security personal at a bank in Seattle has a typical family of three - his wife, daughter, and son.  But soon his world of safeguard is thrown into chaos when armed men take over his house and take his family hostage.  Forced to rob his own bank, Jack must find a way to save his family from harm.

Harrison Ford does a good job with this movie, as usual.  And overall, I liked the film.  But this feature film does not touch the realism of other thrillers such as the Borne trilogy or even the Western remake 3:10 to Yuma.  Profanity was thrown in to heighten tension, but added little.*  The daughter seemed as though she was from a different era, perhaps with 70's style hair and clothes (the combination of the two may have struck that resemblance.)  The title of the film misleads me to think of it more as a hacker's thriller than a knuckle-fist thriller. Overall, enjoyable, but could have been better.

Medium dose of profanity throughout, but with strong references (including damning God's Name.)  Tense situations.  An innocent family in constant peril.  Violence, including rough handling of the hostage family, someone being beat to death (showing blood, etc.,) people getting shot point blank, an intense fist fight, and someone being killed with a pick-axe.  All this sounds quite extreme, but for the most part, less is shown but more is implied. (Actions of people being hit, punched, blood, are shown, but no really graphic gore as would be seen in an R rated movie.)  Nudity/sex, almost unapparent, except someone browsing a questionable magazine and indecent pictures of females near him.  Some women in current business dress, which some audiences may not like.

Capping this review off, I would not recommend the film for the moral content in it, but I enjoyed the ride of the film.  Too tense and violent, etc., for children under 15 (depending on the maturity of the child, this age limit may be higher.)  Watch a different thriller, if you must.  One that has good moral ratings.

Reviewed by Benjamin Bailey

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